Migration Guide 2.0.x to 2.4.x

General notes

akka.Done and akka.NotUsed replacing Unit and BoxedUnit

To provide more clear signatures and have a unified API for both
Java and Scala two new types have been introduced:

akka.NotUsed is meant to be used instead of Unit in Scala
and BoxedUnit in Java to signify that the type parameter is required
but not actually used. This is commonly the case with Source, Flow and Sink
that do not materialize into any value.

akka.Done is added for the use case where it is boxed inside another object to signify
completion but there is no actual value attached to the completion. It is used to replace
occurrences of Future<BoxedUnit> with Future<Done> in Java and Future[Unit] with
Future[Done] in Scala.

All previous usage of Unit and BoxedUnit for these two cases in the Akka Streams APIs
has been updated.

These changes apply to all the places where streams are used, which means that signatures
in the persistent query APIs also are affected.

Removed ImplicitMaterializer

The helper trait ImplicitMaterializer has been removed as it was hard to find and the feature was not worth
the extra trait. Defining an implicit materializer inside an enclosing actor can be done this way:

Changed Operators

expand() is now based on an Iterator

Previously the expand combinator required two functions as input: the first
one lifted incoming values into an extrapolation state and the second one
extracted values from that, possibly evolving that state. This has been
simplified into a single function that turns the incoming element into an
Iterator.

The most prominent use-case previously was to just repeat the previously received value:

Flow[Int].expand(identity)(s=>(s,s))// This no longer works!

In Akka 2.4.x this is simplified to:

Flow[Int].expand(Iterator.continually(_))

If state needs to be be kept during the expansion process then this state will
need to be managed by the Iterator. The example of counting the number of
expansions might previously have looked like:

// This no longer works!Flow[Int].expand((_,0)){case(in,count)=>(in,count)->(in,count+1)}

viaAsync and viaAsyncMat has been replaced with async

async is available from Sink, Source, Flow and the sub flows. It provides a shortcut for
setting the attribute Attributes.asyncBoundary on a flow. The existing methods Flow.viaAsync and
Flow.viaAsyncMat has been removed to make marking out asynchronous boundaries more consistent:

// This no longer workssource.viaAsync(flow)

In Akka 2.4.x this will instead look lile this:

valflow=Flow[Int].map(_+1)Source(1to10).via(flow.async)

Changes in Akka HTTP

Routing settings parameter name

RoutingSettings were previously the only setting available on RequestContext,
and were accessible via settings. We now made it possible to configure the parsers
settings as well, so RoutingSettings is now routingSettings and ParserSettings is
now accessible via parserSettings.

Client / server behaviour on cancelled entity

Previously if request or response were cancelled or consumed only partially
(e.g. by using take combinator) the remaining data was silently drained to prevent stalling
the connection, since there could still be more requests / responses incoming. Now the default
behaviour is to close the connection in order to prevent using excessive resource usage in case
of huge entities.

The old behaviour can be achieved by explicitly draining the entity:

response.entity.dataBytes.runWith(Sink.ignore)

Changed Sources / Sinks

IO Sources / Sinks materialize IOResult

Materialized values of the following sources and sinks:

FileIO.fromPath

FileIO.toPath

StreamConverters.fromInputStream

StreamConverters.fromOutputStream

have been changed from Long to akka.stream.io.IOResult.
This allows to signal more complicated completion scenarios. For example, on failure it is now possible
to return the exception and the number of bytes written until that exception occured.

PushStage, PushPullStage and DetachedStage have been deprecated in favor of GraphStage

The PushStagePushPullStage and DetachedStage classes have been deprecated and
should be replaced by GraphStage (Custom processing with GraphStage) which is now a single powerful API
for custom stream processing.

Update procedure

Websocket now consistently named WebSocket

Previously we had a mix of methods and classes called websocket or Websocket, which was in contradiction with
how the word is spelled in the spec and some other places of Akka HTTP.

Methods and classes using the word WebSocket now consistently use it as WebSocket, so updating is as simple as
find-and-replacing the lower-case s to an upper-case S wherever the word WebSocket appeared.

Java DSL for Http binding and connections changed

In order to minimise the number of needed overloads for each method defined on the Http extension
a new mini-DSL has been introduced for connecting to hosts given a hostname, port and optional ConnectionContext.

The availability of the connection context (if it's set to HttpsConnectionContext) makes the server be bound
as an HTTPS server, and for outgoing connections those settings are used instead of the default ones if provided.

Was:

http.cachedHostConnectionPool(toHost("akka.io"),materializer());http.cachedHostConnectionPool("akka.io",80,httpsConnectionContext,materializer());// does not work anymore

SslTls has been renamed to TLS and moved

The DSL to access a TLS (or SSL) BidiFlow have now split between the javadsl and scaladsl packages and
have been renamed to TLS. Common option types (closing modes, authentication modes, etc.) have been moved to
the top level stream package, and the common message types are accessible in the class akka.stream.TLSProtocol

Framing moved to akka.stream.[javadsl/scaladsl]

The Framing object which can be used to chunk up ByteString streams into
framing dependent chunks (such as lines) has moved to akka.stream.scaladsl.Framing,
and has gotten a Java DSL equivalent type in akka.stream.javadsl.Framing.